It’s been a little while since I’ve been able to dig into Autodesk Vault, but just this week, I had to locate a script to defragment the Vault database. The reason for a defragment is to make sure Vault performance doesn’t degrade when making database queries. For those of us not intimate with SQL, those […]

A couple weeks ago I attended the Future of Making Things Event in Los Angeles, hosted by KETIV and Autodesk. Why? I was supposed to be there! But more importantly, I was excited to be there. I was more excited than I’ve been in a while. The concept of the Future of Making Things is […]

If you’ve created your own content in Inventor’s content center, you’ll have to update it when you move to your next version of Inventor. Fortunately, this isn’t really that difficult, but it’s good to know the steps. So in the interest of sharing, here are the steps that I used to update my own content […]

In my adventures taking aircraft maintenance classes at Mount San Antonio College, I’ve learned a lot of things. Not the least of which, is how much I have to learn! Another piece of knowledge I’m grateful for, is how to drive and set solid rivets. I’m not the best at it, but I can do […]

I’ve been out of the office quite a bit the last few weeks. And while it’s good to be busy, it has put a hold on my video creation schedule. But as was said in the song, “we get by with a little help from our friends”. So with the help of the KETIV Technologies team, […]

In short, when converting a model to sheet metal, Autodesk Inventor 2016 automatically detects the material thickness, versus the “measure and copy” method of previous Inventor versions. Check at the bottom of this post for the video version of this blog, or just keep on reading for the text version! The process starts out with […]

For my post today, I thought I’d delve into creating transparent parts in a drawing.

  Here’s how I came up with using Inventor’s End of Part Market to “Compress” a file. A while ago, I was conducting some basic benchmarks for extruded text versus sketched text in an Autodesk Inventor part model, and I was getting ready to e-mail them out for some testing on external systems. First, what […]

Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of work inside of Inventor drawings. During that time, I was asked how to make sure that all my text and symbols will move with a view. If you’ve used Inventor for a while, you may have noticed that if you put in a text or symbols next to […]

Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of work inside of Inventor drawings. During that time, I was asked how to make sure that all my text and symbols will move with a view. If you’ve used Inventor for a while, you may have noticed that if you put in a text or symbols next to […]